'License plate covering technology' to avoid traffic fines - a problem that gives Russia a headache

In Russia, the use of traffic cameras to monitor people's compliance with traffic laws is extremely popular, helping to minimize the presence of traffic police on the road. However, this has promoted the problem of drivers finding ways to make their license plates unreadable or altered, making it difficult to detect violations using traffic cameras and verify fines.

License plates may be covered with mud and snow.

In the past, drivers often used manual, rudimentary methods to hide license plates. Common methods include using mud (in the summer) or ice and snow (in the winter) to cover the license plate; adding characters with tape or paint to change the characters on the license plate; making the license plate warped, deformed, and difficult to identify...

Or installed in a location that is difficult to observe with a camera.

Such manual measures can be easily detected by authorities (traffic police, traffic inspectors, parking lot supervisors, etc.), administratively sanctioned and the vehicle owner's driving license confiscated.

Therefore, “high-tech” methods of hiding license plates have recently become more popular, making it very difficult for authorities to detect, while traffic cameras can be disabled.

Homemade frame with control to change the tilt angle of the license plate.

The most common methods are using a homemade controlled frame (which causes the license plate to change its tilt angle, to the point where traffic cameras cannot record), specialized stickers (with a special coating that disables cameras), or nano-films (which work on the principle of reflection, blurring the image of the license plate on traffic cameras).

Nano membrane makes license plates 'invisible' to cameras.

Sophisticated techniques are widely used, making it increasingly difficult for Russian authorities to monitor and detect violations.

Recently, the Dorogomilovsky/Moscow District Court issued a decision banning the advertising and sale of special technological devices that allow concealing license plates from traffic cameras, including on domestic and foreign online trading platforms.

The court's decision is the basis for forcing commercial platforms to remove advertising information about relevant technical equipment. If these platforms violate the law, they will be banned from operating in Russia.

The court is also considering a lawsuit against the website Strategicbunker, which distributes sports goods and safety equipment. The trading platform is accused by the watchdog of selling devices that mask license plates on its official website and concealing prohibited transactions. These actions allegedly violate the provisions of the Russian Federal Law “On Road Safety”.

Russian authorities hope the new regulations will help stop the worrying trend, make people more law-abiding, and ensure road safety.

(according to RB, Tass)

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